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Aureate Gloom is of Montreal’s thirteenth LP, and lead singer/band leader Kevin Barnes continues to be a musical genius. Though he has changed the band’s line up once again, the infectious melodies, esoteric references (get your dictionary), and vocal harmonies we’ve come to expect from of Montreal are all still here. Aureate means golden and… Read More

If you didn’t hear, WRMC is taking the varsity radio game up a notch this month with some friendly March Madness competition. On Monday we released the 32 entries for the first round complete with a sampler playlist of highlighted singles from each 2015 album in the pool. Below you’ll find a list of the first round face-offs. So what’ll it be….Drake… Read More

Inspired by a buzzfeed (ya, i know) post, I decided to dedicate this week’s playlist to indie bands based in India. I usually do songs from Bollywood movies so this was also a journey of discovery for me. Read on for a summary of my playlist and also the artists. Some, if not all, of… Read More

Late winter mood swings. Midterms. Moon cycles. The mating season of the European hare. It can only mean one thing: MARCH MADNESS SEASON. Every March, Div. I basketball teams face off in a tourney and fans are called upon to fill out brackets with their guesses as to who will win. Here at WRMC, we wanted… Read More

It’s been a good month for women and it’s been a good month for music. Kim Gordon‘s memoir, Girl in a Band, hit bookstore shelves in late February, and this past week Carrie Brownstein announced that her memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, will come out in the fall. Brownstein recently did a hilarious live interview with Gordon, in which the two discuss the pervasive and engrained… Read More

Tobias Jesso Jr. Sunday mornings blow chunks. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the feeling of waking up with what feels like a small army of gerbils stomping on your brain and a mélange of grille items fermenting in your gut. As the haze of last night’s meeker soiree fades from your bloodshot eyes, the… Read More

I wake up at 8:00 AM and snooze my alarm twice before lolling over the side of my bed to grab my laptop so I can perch it on my chest as I check my email/facebook/twitter/horoscope. I begin to calculate just how many minutes I can afford to spend in bed before I ransack my… Read More

Mitski‘s Bury Me At Makeout Creek was one of the most heartbreaking and revealing rock records released in 2014. The album received positive attention from critics and WRMC DJs, but got somewhat lost in the end of the year shuffle. This April, Makeout Creek is getting a well deserved reissue on the esteemed Don Giovanni… Read More

At the tiny bar/music venue called the Monkey House in Winooski, VT, there’s a bathroom stall in the girl’s room that has some graffiti scrawled about Screaming Females frontperson Marissa Paternoster. It reads “M. PATERNOSTER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TALENTED LADY I KNOW” Every time I go to the Monkey House for a show I use this stall, and every time… Read More